Question

The french used school textbooks in Vietnam to justify colonial. Explain?

Answer 1

The french indeed used the school textbooks in order to justify their colonial rule.
They actually represent the vietnamese as backward people and primitive. They show them that vietnamese are incapable of effective think but are good in the manual labor work.They also called them as "skilled copyists" in the book and illustrate that vietnamese neither can rule nor creative . The children at schools are ensured that the french will bring  peace through their rule.  They ensure at school  level that colonial rule of french are right .

Answer 2

(i) School textbooks glorified the French and justified colonial rule while Vietnamese were represented as primitive and backward.

(ii) They were capable of manual labour but not of intellectual reflection.

(iii) They could work in the fields but not rule themselves.

(iv) They were ‘skilled copyists’ but not creative.

(v) School children were told that only French rule could ensure peace in Vietnam. Since the establishment of French rule, the Vietnamese peasant no longer lives in constant terror of pirates.